Re: Richard Stallmans standpoint about openmoko

2007-04-24 Thread t3st3r
Simon Norberg wrote: Hello, I mailed Richard Stallman a while ago regarding a few things including what he thought about openmoko and his answer was: I could endorse it if they get rid of the plan to use non-free software for the GPS. I don't think the answer surprise anyone, but atleast we

Re: Richard Stallmans standpoint about openmoko

2007-04-24 Thread Mikko J Rauhala
On ti, 2007-04-24 at 17:02 +0400, t3st3r wrote: As for me, I'm have to ask few unfair questions. These are not unfair, IMO. 1) Why there should be some closed-source daemon which does some unknown things?And why should I trust it, if I have no idea what it does? Actually, closed-source

Re: Richard Stallmans standpoint about openmoko

2007-04-22 Thread Ian Stirling
Raphaël Jacquot wrote: snip I'm still wondering *why* we need to use an AGPS device that's so dumb that it needs the *host* to do most of the calculations, when we could have used a SIRF-STAR III sensor, that does everything inside, just like the GSM/GPRS module. this sounds like this thing is

Re: Richard Stallmans standpoint about openmoko

2007-04-20 Thread Raphaël Jacquot
[and this was obviously meant to be sent to the list] Simon Norberg wrote: Hello, I mailed Richard Stallman a while ago regarding a few things including what he thought about openmoko and his answer was: I could endorse it if they get rid of the plan to use non-free software for the GPS. I

Re: Richard Stallmans standpoint about openmoko

2007-04-20 Thread Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller
Am 20.04.2007 um 08:48 schrieb Raphaël Jacquot: I'm still wondering *why* we need to use an AGPS device that's so dumb that it needs the *host* to do most of the calculations, when we could have used a SIRF-STAR III sensor, that does everything inside, just like the GSM/GPRS module. I

SoftGPS, was: Re: Richard Stallmans standpoint about openmoko

2007-04-20 Thread Attila Csipa
On Friday 20 April 2007 09:16, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote: I would suspect: size, matching interfaces, availability, cost of additional components? When I worked on similar things, cost and updates were the two main reasons. Sizewise often there wasn't such a big difference, cost was very

Re: Richard Stallmans standpoint about openmoko

2007-04-20 Thread Red Dragon
I have raised the question about this on [EMAIL PROTECTED] long time ago. Similar issue to Wifi driver, but different decision. However, I think we have to understand that building everything from free/open source in the expected timeline is not that easy. cheers, --rd On 4/20/07, Simon